Word: ishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life he was an avatar of love, peace and altered consciousness, but when he died, Jerry Garcia left his estate with a big legal hangover. After a bitter court feud, Deborah Koons Garcia, his last wife, has been ordered to pay Carolyn ("Mountain Girl") Garcia, the hippie-ish mother of two of his four kids, $5 million in alimony. Deborah plans to appeal...
Circling around this central situation are a younger sister (Natalie Portman) mooning over a high school hunk; a younger brother rebelling by embracing neoconservatism; a senile grandfather; a Nazi-ish maid; an ex-husband (Allen himself) for Mom who keeps dragging his current romantic troubles into the picture; and Julia Roberts, curiously disarming as his latest psychologically bedraggled draggee...
...shiny, Brady-ish, we-are-a-family theme was undermined in unintended and sometimes ironic ways. An opening-night song was from Rent, a musical featuring a drag queen with aids, which aggressively rejects middle-class platitudes. Jesse Jackson, who has spent three decades in public life acting almost as though he had no family, suddenly carted out some of his kids for an appearance on a Larry King show in which he praised the maternal attributes of his usually invisible wife. Gore, in his speech recalling his sister's death from lung cancer, neglected to mention that he continued...
...empirical evidence says "yup." I'm 21, so I can buy beer, vote and can't go to juvenile hall. Hell, I can even get Zima. About a month ago, I went to a yuppie-ish cocktail party. The scary thing was, I had a good time...
THREE TALL-ISH WOMEN...